May 25, 2005

Jason Calconis Announces Weblogs Inc hits $2000 A day in Adsense

After announcing Weblogs Inc hitting $1,000 a day 6 weeks ago on April 7th, Jason posted today that they have hit their next goal of $2000 in one day yesterday (not an average day however). Originally Jason planned to take months to get to $2k but it took a relatively short time. To get to $1,000 per day Jason states they did some major optimization to the blogs, but getting to $2,000 per day came mainly from an increase in traffic and Adsense in RSS feeds.

While some people feel clearly envious of this level of earnings (and I don't recall anyone else being so up front and public about high earngings), it's clear it requires hundreds of pages of content built over 75 blogs and 10 staff members. Not exactly a one man show, but much better quality than just one person generating hundreds of pages of scraped content and articles.

I am sure there are blogger purists who feel generating blogs for profit is against the spirit of blogging, but get ready as we see more and more of it. Blogging has been refreshing as it gave power back to the people and not big corporate profits and was reminiscent of the Internet in the old days of 10 years ago. The reality is, the "American way" of making money and getting ahead has permeated our culture as well as countries and cultures outside the US as well. AdSense had made it "easy" to set it and forget it to get a check in the mail - plus no clients to deal with. Ok, then blogs about mortgage refinancing are just around the corner - Err..Oh no they are already upon us ;^)